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After gossipy muckraking political payola specialist died a few months ago, his website URL went up for sale. PoliticsNY.net was on the market for $3,000, according to the Massachusetts-based URL resale company I spoke with. Someone snapped it up, and a relaunch is apparently in the works for the very near future.

Here are a few other things I think may be clues. And I fully realize I’m trying to interpret the meaning behind the color of the smoke coming from a Vatican chimney.

1. Notice Cuomo’s size – towering over everyone else – and the way in which his arms are almost grabbing at the heads of all the other people in the collage. I think whoever started this site is from the right-wing of the NYS Republican Party, or possibly the state Conservative Party, and has a big problem with Governor Cuomo.

2. Besides Cuomo, the only other individual shown in the collage who has nothing to do with WNY is Shelly Silver. Notice the conspicuous absence of Senate Maj leader Dean Skelos (perhaps because control of the Senate remains in limbo, but I digress). Whoever set this up doesn’t like Silver a whole lot.

Not terribly surprising about the lack of a woman. Now that Kathy Hochul has lost, who is the biggest woman in the political scene in WNY? Betty Jean Grant? 2 Members of Congress, 5 State Senators, 8 Members of Assembly, 5 Countywide offices, one woman. And let’s be honest, Jane Corwin is nothing more than a back bencher collecting a paycheck.

And you’re surprised about the lack of women??? Look who’s in charge of both parties? White men, who like to go with those they know and are friends with, other white men. Until we get women in to leadership positions within the parties, that is not going to change.